didierforever

ohhhh dear. u do get that any injury is not for a match but for a period of time!!! i was never once talking about essien, kalas and rami TOGETHER. when i said 2 injuries, it was to show that we would be left with no choice but to play with a certain back 4 for a period of time. no rotation possible what so ever. any rotation would have the likes of essien/kalas/rambo (why????) coming in the back 4. not the ideal situation for a team fighting for PL, is it? also DL as a right back would be interesting!!!

not one bit to me. 2 injuries and we would be thread bare in our options and in football,2 injuries is not that is not unheard of. i hope i am wrong but this move smacks more off jose and ryan's (lets put it lightly) strained relationship than anything else.

i think TOPTB would have got what i meant to say.

so let me get this clear. iva and AC being injured at the same point it "worst defensive injury crisis in the history of PL" lets take a look at what happened when we went to barca, DL was already injured, GC got a hammy and we had to play bosingwa in the back 4 after JT was carded. i can go on and on about the number of times 2 defenders have been injured together (cos unfortunately thats all we need to leave us thread bare at the back).

first thing first, i see u still have not gotten sarcasm. secondly, its the mid week FA cup matches i am more worried about than the weekend PL matches. i think i made myself very clear on that. maybe it cos i dont want to see an already slow AC (who has lost a lot of pace) now playing against wingers when he is tired too. makes out for a patheitic combination.

rant and sarcasm and exaggeration does not seem to settle well with u, does it??? it was said with so as to show how poorly we treat our youth!!! simple as that. not everything is to be taken literally.i thought that was pretty clear from the way i wrote and what i wrote.

essien and kalas. yes well said. i saw how essien performed against sunderland in the COC match. KALAS has been a relevation this season!!! u do know that one player can play in only one position in a match. or by your account matic was a useless by cos lets take a look at all our DM options rambo, lamps, mikel, essien, mvg, luiz, oscar (he played a game in that position under benitez). the list u have given me simply compresses to this reality for 95% of our games in which jose would not even think of starting either of essien/kalas (remember kalas has not started either of COC or FA cup or a CL dead rubber) RB - iva, azpi CB - JT, GC, DL LB - AC

cos they actually have 3 LBs (evra, buttner) not a makeshift RB (smalling, rafael). by the way add rio to the list.

he was "injured" for the last game and has been "injured" for a long time (remembers me so much of sturridge and his "injuries"). though now i am sure he will play each and every match for villa without any "injuries". no, we have 5 AMs for 3 spots and 6 CMs for 2 spots (matic, rambo, mikel, lamps, mvg and essien). bit much!!! they have played league football cos they have been selected by their and shown some faith. bertrand would have 2nd to willian as a MOTM in the arsenal carling cup game but somehow got the boot from jose.on the other hand, AC who had a horrendous start to the season was continued to play until it became clear that he should be dropped. shaw becoming the first choice LB ahead of both azpi/cole is unrealistic in my opinion. i simply dont think that can happen in a club like chelsea. infact i think he would be loaned out to vitesse in the summer if he is bought.

are u an idiot or something? there is a reason there is a squad of 25 people. there is a reason why "big" teams have 8 defenders for their 4 positions. city - zabaleta, kolarov, richards, clichy, kompany, nastastic, demichellis, lescott united - vidic, jones, evans, smalling, rafael, evra, fabio, buttner or do u think they should loan out players too? their is a squad so as to cover for injuries and too many games. bertrand was a perfect squad player for that. and thats the reason we had 6 ams for 3 positions, 5 CMs for 2 positions. get it?? so as to cover for injuries which unfortunately plays a big role!!!

we have BA and essien "on the books" earning 80k and 100k respectively but are worried about bertrand's wages? weird!! how conviniently u emphasize on "league". RB was never going to be the first team player. where he is used best was in squad rotation. with the FA cup matches and replays to be played, that is where he would have been useful. also, in giving a "rest" to our fullbacks before big european nights in quarters and semis. what i dont get is, its fine having 3 strikers for 1 positions, 6 CMs for 2 positions but bertrand as our 7th defender is unnecessary. also, the shaw deal, still makes no sense. 20mil for him to be our 3rd choice LB cos i dont see jose dropping iva once he comes back and every1 knows his favouritism towards ash. also the scenario i gave u might be hypothetical but can so easily be "reality". injuries in football is not unheard of and thats why "big" teams normally have "squad" depth. i mean lets look at man city - kolarov, clichy, zabaleta, richards as their fullbacks and kompany, demichellis, nastastic, and lescott as their cbs. and here we are sending a perfectly fine squad player on loan

24 year old and we are worried about his "developement". cos if he plays week in and week out now, he will probably become the next AC. i mean in the next 4 months, RB playing for villa would change him into the best defender in the world, right? SCENARIO - iva is out for city match. azpi/cole get an injury in the united/stoke fa cup game. who plays as your RB/LB? kalas? essien? but u r right, sending out bertrand for loan is more important than title aspirations. mata is also sitting on the bench, lets loan him out. KALAS? so u r fine with a 20 year old CB being our 7th choice defender (which is actually not true cos if kalas is our 7th choice defender then baker is our 6th choice CM since both of them have played the same amount of minutes this season). instead we go out and loan a perfectly fine LB. this deal makes 0 sense, why not simply loan out kalas then? his "develpoment" is way more important and even possible than bertrand's.

bertrand loan is already on our official site. http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3625006/title/bertrand-loaned-to-villa

KALAS??? is he still here!!! tell me the number of minutes he has played. SCENARIO - iva not available for city match, just in case one of azpi/cole gets injured, who hell is going to play LB/RB??? essien??? kalas??? this is a STUPID move. even if we buy LUKE right now, its still stupid cos we will be paying at least 20+mil for a LB. no spin that u can put to this move can make it any better.

so now we have 6 defenders. JT, GC, DL, iva, AC and azpi. 2 of those 6 defenders are 33 year olds and we are in the business end of the season but suddenly we are worried about the "development" and "playtime" of a 24 year old LB. ya great move!!! THUD indeed!!! lets play JT and AC every match until they fall down on the pitch. but leave RB on the bench... oh nooo thats just blasphemy!!! we have 3 strikers for 1 position, 6 CMs for 2 position but are worried about bertrand being on the bench. BRILLIANT!!1

6 defenders for 4 positions. just plain stupid. 2 out of those 6 are 33 year olds. how does this deal help us in anyway?

bertrand on loan... fuck... thats just stupid..

bertrand on loan... fuck... thats just stupid...

our CMs are not young. rambo will be 27 next season, matic will be 26, and mikel will be 27. theoretically all 3 of them should be in their prime. somehow i feel mvg would have had a good enough part to play this season if he had not been injured for 9 months and add to that atleast one of our youth products of romeu/josh/chalobah/ake and u have a decent center midfield. i am in no way saying anything against lamps. he is a legend and his experience and AURA are irreplacable. but we will have to get over him sometime and i feel next season would be best. i would hate to lose lamps, JT, cole together. that would be a BIG BLOW to the mentality of the squad. hence phase them out one by one. add to that the fact that lamps will be taking atleast 100kpw, it just becomes too much.

no need to apologize dude. i am pretty sure. he was not named in our CL squad, we had to fill in the "homegrown" spots and hence he was sacrificed. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelsea-uefa-champions-league-squad-2251256

he is not cup tied. infact he was not even in our 23 man CL squad.

he is 19 who has 4 years on his contract. so why would u want to sell him now? let him develop into a player, see how that goes and then make a decision.

25 mil is a fair evaluation. he is 21 for god's sake. thats like at least 15 years. AT THE LEAST. if jose takes a decision of selling him then i wont argue but most importantly at the right price. moreover he will be used in the costa deal if he is sure, i feel. 32 mil for costa so in the end i feel it would be something like thibaut + 9/10 mil.

leaving??? anything concrete?

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LEGEND!!!!